回想在設計學院 VISION BASE 籌備期的第一年 2023年 2 月，第一個工作營主題為 AI 人工智能演算加速未來設計敘事（Narrative Design for future by AI generated art）發起人是媒體傳達設計學系主任陳威志（Rex Takeshi Chen）。當時院內邀請了以 AI 為設計工具的先峰隊，包括業界的設計師及高捷老師，帶我們用剛興起的 midjourney 生成未來想像。當年有很多令人印象深刻的作品，也是全臺灣第一個以 AI 在設計應用的工作營。
我常想著，將「想像的世界」與「我們活著的世界」具體連接起來的連接點。今天2026 年1月18日，我覺得我們有一個大進步，因為 Dr. Raphael Kim 帶我們從看得到的世界進入到微觀宇宙，那是我們平常很沒有感知到的微小世界：細菌和蛋白質，而我自己也在這幾天大開眼界。
這算是我在 VISION BASE 階段性工作的小結：將 2023 到 2026 的頭、尾接起來成為環（概念上的環）非常數位的想像，做到非常數位的分子構成。這讓我們在設計學門的對未來想像，有初步的事實根基。
探索新領域是辛苦又快樂的，有機會和大家在這裡創作和學習我的榮幸。謝謝鳳玉院長在這些工作上的支持，在經費實質幫助、更照顧我們的精神和肚子，讓我空出雙手可以和你們在這裡七天。謝謝 Raphael Kim 遠道而來、謝謝媒體傳達設計學系楊朝皓老師、蘇志昇老師、喻暄、恆瑞、設影師：予萱、子晴、晴文、梓霖，以及精神穩定力量的亭羽、博允、雅如、隆傑、保睿老師。
Looking back to February 2023, the first year of VISION BASE's preparation phase at the School of Design, our very first workshop was titled Narrative Design for the Future by AI-Generated Art. The workshop was initiated by Chair of Department of Communications Design Rex Takeshi Chen. At the time, the school brought together early pioneers of AI as a design tool—industry designers as well as Professor Kao Chieh, who guided us in using the then-emerging Midjourney to generate visions of the future. The results were striking, and the workshop became widely recognized as the first in Taiwan to focus on AI applications in design.
I often find myself thinking about how to build a concrete bridge between the "world we imagine" and the "world we live in." On January 18, 2026, I feel we made a significant leap forward. Dr. Raphael Kim led us from the visible world into a microscopic universe, one we rarely sense in daily life, introducing us to the tiny yet essential realms of bacteria and proteins. Over these past few days, my perspective has truly been opened up.
This feels like a meaningful milestone in my work at VISION BASE: connecting the beginning and the end of 2023 through 2026 into a single loop, a conceptual loop, moving from highly digital imagination toward an imagination grounded in the molecular building blocks of the world, which is, in its own way, profoundly digital as well. It gives our future-facing imagination in design an initial footing in real, observable facts.
Exploring a new field is both demanding and deeply rewarding, and it has been an honor to create and learn here with all of you. My sincere thanks to Dean Feng-Yu for supporting this work, not only through practical funding, but also by taking care of our morale (and our meals), which allowed me to fully show up and spend these seven days with you. Thank you to Dr. Raphael Kim for traveling such a long way, and thank you to the Department of Communications Design, Professor Chao-Hao Yang and Professor Chih-Sheng Su, as well as Yu-Hsuan and Heng-Ruei. Thank you also to our photographers: Yu-Hsuan, Tzu-Ching, Ching-Wen (Anna), and Tsz lam, and to the steady, grounding support from Ting-Yu, Po-Yun, Ya-Ju, Long-Jie, Masha, and Professor Paul Gong.
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